The disclosure provides systems and methods for characterizing spatial distortions in location data determined by an imaging system, e. The techniques include establishing one or more criterion for partitioning a query, wherein the query comprises one or more tables, materializing a first of the one or more tables, partitioning the first of the one or more tables until the one or more criterion have been satisfied, and partitioning and joining a remainder of the one or more tables of the query. The frequency plan table relates carrier frequency channels to the operation of a synthesizer and a plurality of programmable frequency dividers in a locked loop.